Re: [PATCH] NETLINK_UESTABLISHED notifier event

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:26:25PM -0700, Dmitry Yusupov wrote:
> 
> Messages from kernel are asynchronous and there are no alloc_skb on "up"
> calls. It is "mempooled out" on interface level. (see Open-iSCSI
> interface). Messages to kernel requires copy_from_user to newly
> allocated skb, here is where we need sk_allocation bit set. Those
> messages are synchronous from daemon perspective. If "down" call fails,
> we will re-try later or take some other management action. We assuming
> that later OOM-killer will free some memory for us and atomic allocation
> will succeed eventually.

I presume you only need to send one message at a time of a fixed size.
Would it better to always have an skb allocated for the socket so that
we don't need to allocate at sendmsg time?

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